technostuff

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:08:38 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:

>* techno-rock (OED 1983)
>
>1977 _NME_ 16 July (backpages.com) The pioneers of electronic synthesizer
>music, of techno-rock — whatever term you care to use — the archetypal
>cerebral German group who sit on stage in darkness operating three huge
>banks of computers and synthesizers are actually selling in the soul and
>disco market.
>http://backpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=2690

Slightly earlier:

Lester Bangs, "The Future of Techno-Rock: Where's Boston?"
_Real Paper_, Nov. 20, 1976. Reprinted in _NME_, Jan. 1977.
Cited in: _Let it Blurt_ by Jim Derogatis
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0767905091/


--Ben Zimmer